Dave comments on LHA

The latest housing benefit 'mouth gogger' in the Daily Mail to get the 'average man' hot and sweaty was the tale of the Somali asylum seekers who are receiving £2000 a week for their £2 million Kensington 5 bed rental property.

The story has lead the PM to join in on the head scratching and red faced blustering, commenting that the housing benefit system was ‘completely out of control’ thanks to Labour.

Dave went on to say that:

‘The idea that a family should be able to claim £2,000 a week for their house is an outrage for people who go to work every day, pay their taxes and try to do the right thing for their family.

‘That is why we will cap housing benefit levels from April next year so the maximum that can be claimed will be £400 a week for a property with more than four bedrooms.'

All those landlords out there receiving more than £400 per week from local housing allowance need to start searching out their 'plan b's' from the filing cabinet'.

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